Market competition, Privatisation and choice options as policy instrument - State to market
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Three markets in the Dutch health care system
Example: dutch healt insurance.
3 interrelated markets: 3 parties
- Citizens (patiens)
- Health insurance providers
- Health care providers (hospital)
Health care purchasing market (zorginkoopmarkt) (3d market)
- Negotiate about prices, volume (quality) of care to be delivered.
Conditions for functioning of markets
- Market = mechanism that allows you to coordinate [via the price mechanism] the preferences of consumers and suppliers of goods and services
- (i.e. not the same as freedom of choice and/or privatisation)
- Markets can function efficiently if: 3 groups of conditions to make sure that the market mechanism will deliver, what it promises to deliver:
- products and prices are comparable
- market participants are perfectly informed
- market entry is without barriers
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